Why I Love Orcinus, part gazillion plus one

Sara Robinson speaking straight and to the point:

Dear Conservatives:

Your fellow Americans demand an answer -- and we want it now. Just one simple question:

Are you deliberately trying to start a civil war?

Just answer the question. Yes or no. Don't insult us with elisions, evasions, dithering, qualifications, or conditional answers. We need to know what your intentions are -- and we need to know NOW. People are being shot dead in the streets of America at the rate of several per month now. You may not want responsibility for this -- but the whackadoodles pulling the triggers make no bones about who put them up to this.

You did.

The assassins themselves are ratting you out. They're telling us, straight up, that they were inspired to act by the hate radio talkers that you empowered -- one of whom is now the de facto head of the Republican party. They got it from media outlets owned by your biggest donors. They got it from bloggers who receive daily talking points faxed in from the GOP. They got it from activists representing causes that would have never become causes in the first place if the issues hadn't been politically expedient for you.

Beyond that: You've already admitted your own complicity. When the Department of Homeland Security expressed their worries about right-wing extremist violence last April, practically every conservative pundit in the country went into a righteous fit. DHS never named anyone directly, so it was astonishing how many of you on the right were so quick to step up and claim that that memo was slandering you, personally and collectively. Since you were so eager to claim that that memo was all about you, now that the violence has come to pass, we're well justified in holding you to that.

There's lots more; go read the whole thing. But be careful; there are a couple of nutjob trolls in the comments.

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The answer to Sara's question ("Are you deliberately trying to start a civil war?") sure sounds like "yes." Unfortunately, the followup question, "What sort of person works to start a civil war?" has only a few legitimate answers, which all boil down to "enemies of the US." I know that some folks in that group will gladly admit to it -- they see the US as a failed state and believe that they need to wipe the slate clean and start over, with their insanity as a template. (When everyone knows that if we do that, the only legitimate hope of success is for me to be in charge :-) But some, who still believe they're good US citizens, need the mirror held up before them.

So repeat the question whenever you hear a wingnut speaking about race wars, ethnic cleansing, killing doctors who provide reproductive healthcare, or all the other insane inflammatory rhetoric that pushes people to shoot others in their churches, or set off bombs in public parks, etc.:

Are you deliberately trying to start a civil war?